Ceylon: Madame's Exit

Ceylon's 10,600,000 people expect a good show
during their national elections, and the proceedings often resemble a
carnival as much as a contest. The biggest crowds last week gathered to
hear the top rivals: Madame Sirima Bandaranaike, 48, the world's only
woman Prime Minister, and bachelor Dudley Senanayake, 53, whose
conservative United National Party was supported by breakaway members
of Madame's Freedom Party.

Speaking to a jampacked rally at Kalutara, south of the capital city of
Colombo, greying, bespectacled Senanayake wore a green shirt (his party
color) and gripped an elephant tusk...